The sub-headline on Sun's CoolThreads Try-and-Buy Application Resources must have caught the eye of Thomas Rampelberg and Jason J.W. Williams, director of development and COO/CTO, respectively, of DigiTar: "5X the Performance using 1/5 Pin 1/4 the Space." No wonder Rampelberg and Williams read on. Little wonder, too, that they adopted the Sun Fire T2000 server at DigiTar.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has formed the SPEC Power-Performance Committee, which is charged with developing standard methods and metrics for comparing energy use by server-class computers. The non-profit SPEC includes among its members such businesses as AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
The Sun Fire V40z server now has a 4GB DDR1/400 DIMM available for upgrades of the system. This new DIMM can provide maximum memory configurations of up to 64 GB. General availability date for this component is May 29, 2006.
Sun has announced a second last-order-date extension for the Netra 440 non-RoHS 1.6 GHz system, previously extended to June 1, 2006. The new last order date is now June 30, 2006, allowing customers further time to transition to the Netra 440 RoHS system.
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